Trump aide likens UK threat to ban X to Putin's Russia

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Source: The Times (UK)

President Trump’s free-speech tsar has compared the government’s threats against X to President Putin’s Russia in a row over deepfake pornography generated by artificial intelligence.

Sarah Rogers, the US state department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, made the comparison in a series of online posts attacking the UK for considering restrictions on the platform, which is owned by Elon Musk.

Liz Kendall, the UK technology secretary, said that ministers would back the regulator Ofcom if it decided to block access to X in the UK after its Grok artificial-intelligence tool was used to create deepfake images, including of undressed women and sexualised children.

However, Rogers said that Britain was “contemplating a Russia-style X ban, to protect them from bikini images”.

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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trump-aide-threat-ban-x-putin-russia-rr3tkc7qv

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Our pedophile president has to have his flunkies defend the tech lords who are bribing and supporting him.

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1. It should be banned everywhere, along with ai!

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2. David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are 'unacceptable'

JD Vance, the US vice-president, has agreed that it is “entirely unacceptable” for platforms such as X to allow the proliferation of AI-generated sexualised images of women and children, David Lammy has told the Guardian.

The deputy prime minister said Vance, usually known as an AI enthusiast, expressed concern about how the technology was being used to fuel “hyper-pornographied slop” online when they met in Washington on Thursday.
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“We discussed Greenland and I also raised with him the Grok issue and the horrendous, horrific situation in which this new technology is allowing deepfakes and the manipulation of images of women and children, which is just absolutely abhorrent. He agreed with me that it was entirely unacceptable,” Lammy said on Friday.

Asked if Vance was sympathetic to the UK government’s stance on Grok, Lammy said: “I think he recognised the very seriousness with which images of women and children could be manipulated in this way, and he recognised how despicable, unacceptable, that is and I found him sympathetic to that position. And in fact, we’ve been in touch again, today, about this very serious issue.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/ai-generated-sexualised-images-x-jd-vance-grok